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New Delhi : The Lok Sabha Friday passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill 2014 amid protests from members of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi...

By IANS New Delhi : State legislative councils would henceforth be constituted only by representatives of panchayats and municipalities once the government accepts the recommendations of the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC). ARC chairman Veerappa Moily unveiled Tuesday some of the recommendations the ARC has made in its report on local governance, titled: "Local Governance: A Journey into the Future."

By IANS, Chandigarh : Former Punjab chief minister and senior Congress leader Amarinder Singh was Wednesday expelled from the Punjab state assembly for allegedly favouring a private party in granting a plot of prime land in Amritsar during his days in power. The expulsion came after an assembly committee recommended action against Amarinder Singh after holding him guilty of involvement in the land scam when his Congress government was in power (2002-07).

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New Delhi: A petition was filed in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday seeking action against JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on a...

By IANS, Ranchi : The Hatia constituency by-poll to the Jharkhand assembly will take place amid tight security arrangements Tuesday, an official said here Monday.

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Indian Government has condemned the Israeli military attack on the boats carrying supplies for Gaza and deplored the loss of life of human rights activists on board the flotilla. “There can be no justification for such indiscriminate use of force, which we condemn,” said External Affairs Ministry in a press statement.

New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said more than 3,000 villages across the country have been provided electricity in around 100...

Lucknow : A war of words has broken out between Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over remarks by...

By IANS, Chennai : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Tuesday ordered a judicial probe into the phone-tapping scandal exposed by the media and the opposition parties. Karunanidhi indirectly admitted to the phone tapping, a day after denying the allegations and announcing an intention to prosecute the newspaper that published excerpts from a purported conversation between chief secretary L.K. Tripathy and additional director general of police S.K. Upadhyaya.

By IANS, Agartala: Several tribal political parties in northeast India have extended support for the carving out of a separate state of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh.

By IANS, New Delhi : With the electoral verdict clear, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance will next turn its attention to government formation and there is strong likelihood that young parliamentarians will find a place in the council of ministers, said party sources. "The Congress president Sonia Gandhi has already promised that young MPs who have worked hard and proved themselves will be included in the cabinet this time," said a senior party leader.

Kolkata : West Bengal legislators have expressed their wish to raise in the assembly the issue of former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju's...

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By IANS, New Delhi : Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) new chief Nitin Gadkari Thursday said the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the party, was not going to take over the political party. Gadkari, who himself is a RSS member, denied any interference from the organisation in the BJP's day-to-day activities. "RSS does not want to takeover the BJP or dictate," Gadkari said while addressing his first press conference at the party's office at Ashoka Road here.

By IANS, New Delhi : Embattled Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Sunday night stepped down, the Prime Minister's Office said, ending a weeklong political drama surrounding a controversial IPL financial deal involving his Dubai-based friend Sunanda Pushkar. "Shashi Tharoor... has submitted his resignation to the prime minister, stepping down from the union council of ministers. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has forwarded the resignation to President Pratibha Patil with the recommendation that it may be accepted," a statement from the PMO said.

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By IANS, Kolkata: Hundreds of thousands of mourners, many of them weeping, poured onto the streets of Kolkata Tuesday as the body of India's longest serving chief minister and Marxist icon Jyoti Basu was taken on the last journey and handed over to a hospital for medical research. A sea of humanity literally took over Kolkata, from where Basu presided over West Bengal for 23 long years from 1977 to 2000. A galaxy of national leaders and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina thronged the state funeral that brought the sprawling state to a halt.

Mumbai : Around 12 years ago, when industrialist tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani was battling for life in a Mumbai hospital, close family friend and Congress...

By IANS, Bhubaneswar : Speaker Kishor Mohanty adjourned the Orissa assembly Monday till the afternoon after the opposition stalled proceedings over alleged sex escapades of a state minister. The opposition shouted slogans demanding the resignation of the State Revenue Minister Manmohan Samal and a statement from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on the matter. A section of the local media had reported last week that Samal was involved in an affair with a woman from his constituency and had spent a night with her recently in Delhi.

New Delhi : Political parties on Wednesday largely welcomed the Supreme Court's go-ahead for hanging Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon, saying justice has...

By Alok Singh, Ghaziabad : AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal's adamant refusal to accept security has put police personnel from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh deputed to...

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By IANS New Delhi : The Manmohan Singh government has got a 13-day breather with the Left-UPA committee on the India-US civil nuclear deal deciding to meet next on Oct 22 after an inconclusive discussion Tuesday. The fourth meeting between the Left parties and the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on the contentious nuclear deal went on for two-and-a-half hours at the South Block.

New Delhi : Indira Gandhi knew her life was at risk when she decided to go for militarily storm the Golden Temple, President Pranab...

By IANS, Chennai : The AIADMK Saturday said police had searched without a warrant the hotel rooms of party leaders, including former chief minister O. Panneerselvam, in Tiruchendur, where they were campaigning for the Dec 19 by-polls. In a complaint faxed to the Chief Election Commissioner Saturday, K.A. Sengottaiyan, the AIADMK whip in the state assembly, said the rooms he and Panneerselvam were staying in at the Mini Sivamurugan Hotel at Tiruchendur were raided at about 1.45 a.m. by S.S. Krishnamoorthy, Inspector General of Police (South Zone) and his subordinates.

By Twocircles Staff Reporter, Thiruvananthapuram: The Indian Muslim League has said that it will extend all possible support to the Aligarh Muslim University over the...

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Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday came out with statistics in BJP-ruled states to claim that the condition of women was...

New Delhi: A court here has directed Delhi Police to register first information report (FIR) and probe allegations of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy...

By IANS, New Delhi : Politicians in the national capital seem to have fallen in love with "undisclosed" destinations. With uncertainty and confusion in political circles over Tuesday's trust vote, leaders do not want to hold their meetings at public locations or party offices. After Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh and Ram Gopal Yadav chose an "undisclosed" destination to meet National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Shibu Soren also preferred to stay in an undisclosed location.

Kolkata : Rubbishing a media report claiming that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made personal gains by selling her paintings to Saradha Group...

Hyderabad: Congress leader and former minister Galla Aruna Kumari and her industrialist son Galla Jayadev Saturday joined Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Aruna Kumari along with...

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By IANS, New Delhi : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will visit Odisha Monday-Tuesday (Feb 18-19) and meet senior leaders, party sources said Saturday.

Kolkata : Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Thursday admitted he was "taken aback" when Narendra Modi congratulated him after he won the Lok Sabha elections,...

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By IANS, New Delhi : Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) supremo and former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda Sunday joined hands with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati in efforts to topple the UPA government. Addressing reporters after the Uttar Pradesh chief minister met him at his residence here, Gowda said: "The smaller parties will be meeting on July 23 to discuss the future programme and plan of action. I want to announce that all our three MPs have unanimously decided to vote against the UPA."

By IANS, New Delhi: The government is likely to hold consultations with political parties on the women's reservation bill on April 5, official sources said here Wednesday. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal will attend the meeting, sources added.

Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday announced a one-day fast -- and asked people across the state to join him --...

By IANS, Ranchi : A suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Tuesday said that Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren was suitable to be the chief minister of the state. Vishnu Bhaiya, a suspended BJP legislator, Tuesday told reporters: "Shibu Soren is suitable for the chief minister's post in the present political scenario. Elevation of Shibu Soren to the CM's post is in the interest of people of the state."

By IANS, Hyderabad : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's brother-in-law P. Ravindranath Reddy Wednesday threatened to contest as an Independent candidate in the next month's assembly elections if the ruling Congress does not give him the ticket. Ravindernath Reddy, who is also the mayor of Kadapa town, said he would not go back on his ultimatum to contest as an Independent candidate from Kadapa assembly constituency. "I enjoy people's support in Kadapa and can win the seat by majority of thousands of votes," he told reporters in Kadapa.

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Kolkata : Expressing his disgust at the Trinamool Congress over the alleged involvement of its leaders in the Saradha scam, former party parliamentarian Sucharu...

Thiruvananthapuram : BJP president Amit Shah will launch on April 9 the campaign of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for Kerala assembly elections, said...

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By IANS, New Delhi: The central government has rejected a proposal to hike the salaries and perks of Delhi legislators, saying some of the facilities sought were not available even to MPs.

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By IANS, New Delhi : A Maoist ideologue has claimed that Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh tried to open a secret channel with the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist). But the Congress leader has denied this. Speaking to the New Delhi-based Open weekly magazine, Tusharkant Bhattacharya said he was approached by Digvijay Singh in August last year through a Hyderabad-based Congress leader.

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By Arvind Padmanabhan Amman : India will continue to support separate statehood for Palestine while also engaging with Israel to forge an independent...

Patna: More than 315 violations of the model code of conduct by candidates and political parties have been registered in Bihar till date, an...

Jaipur: Jaswant Singh, who was miffed with the BJP for not offering him a ticket, Monday filed his nomination papers as an independent from...

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Visakhapatnam: Senior leader Sitaram Yechury was unanimously elected the new general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday -- the last...

New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will organise country-wide protests against the hike in petrol and diesel prices announced by the union government Thursday. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told reporters here, "The hike of Rs.2 per litre in petrol prices and Re.1 per litre in diesel is an anti-people step. The BJP opposes it and our president Rajnath Singh has announced organization of country-wide protests."

Lucknow : Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Friday urged party workers and legislators to move ahead from the humiliating defeat in the Lok...

By IANS, Chandigarh : Bhupinder Singh Hooda was Sunday evening sworn in as the chief minister of Haryana for a second term amid chaos as unruly Congress supporters virtually took over the proceedings. Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia administered the oath of office and secrecy to Hooda at a ceremony in the Haryana Raj Bhavan here. Hooda took the oath in Hindi. The ceremony, meant to be a formal one, was virtually hijacked by Congress leaders and supporters who stormed the stately complex as if they were going to a public rally.

By IANS New Delhi : With the Left parties that support the government from the outside and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) clearly in a combative mood over the India-US civil nuclear deal, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Tuesday indicated that the government was ready for a discussion and vote on it in parliament. Addressing a press conference ahead of the month-long monsoon session beginning Friday, he said no decision had been taken on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh making a suo moto statement on the issue in parliament.

By TCN News The Bihar Chapter of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Musahwarat, the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organizations, has written a letter to...

Shravasti (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 1 (IANS) He bathed in the open, drew water from a hand-pump and ate their meals. A week after his unexpected forays into Uttar Pradesh's impoverished hinterland, Dalit villagers who saw Rahul Gandhi at their doorstep are still incredulous about it and say his visit will remain etched in their memories.

Chandigarh : Despite opposition from Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and Amritsar-based SGPC, the newly set-up ad hoc committee of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara...

By News Agency of Kashmir Baramulla : Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mehbooba Mufti has said the October 2002 elections laid a strong foundation for the positive transformation of the State's political scenario when PDP took the initiative of representing and voicing the just concerns and aspirations of the people, both in and outside the Government.

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By Nityanand Shukla, IANS, Ranchi : When Shibu Soren took oath as Jharkhand chief minister in August, many wondered if he would be able to remain in power. On Thursday, luck deserted him again as he lost an election he needed to win. When the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief took oath as chief minister Aug 27, replacing Madhu Koda, he was not a member of the legislative assembly and needed to be elected within six months.

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Jammu : The Jammu and Kashmir government Thursday said it would initiate a bill in the ongoing budget session of the state legislature to set up a delimitation commission to raise by 25 percent the assembly seats from the existing 87.

Health and Medical Education Minister Mangat Ram Sharma held out the assurance in the absence of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and deputy Chief Minister Muzzaffar Hussain Baig.

By Rajeev Khanna, IANS Ahmedabad : As Gujarat awaits election results Sunday, Chief Minister Narendra Modi seems supremely confident of retaining power with a thumping majority. With counting of votes set for Sunday, Modi has been presenting himself in a manner that conveys that he is sure of continuing for another five years in office. Even during the build up to the elections, Modi spearheaded the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign. The election was fought by the BJP around the personality of Modi and his functioning over the last five years.

By Irfan Engineer Election time is season for Manifestoes of major political parties participating in the poll. Manifestoes are seen by some members of the...

By Vishal Gulati, Shimla : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's popularity wave in Himachal Pradesh has worked wonders as the ruling Congress party in...

By IANS, Lucknow : The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday demanded action against Pakistan, accusing it of supporting and sponsoring terrorism. “Taking into account the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, it is high time the central government should initiate action against Pakistan,” BJP leader Kalraj Mishra told reporters here. Asked to comment over BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's remark about women protesting in Mumbai after the terror attack, Mishra said: “It was his (Naqvi) personal opinion. I will not say anything.”

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By IANS, Kallooppara (Kerala) : Kallooppara assembly constituency in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala Monday became the fourth of the state's 140 constituencies to be fully electrified. Electricity Minister A.K. Balan formally declared Kallooppara as fully electrified at a function here in Mallapally, where local legislator Joseph M. Puthusserry was also present. The last time the constituency was in the news was when Puthusserry took up an ambitious project to make it computer literate by providing computers to all the 106 government aided schools in his constituency.

By IANS, New Delhi : Vowing he would do anything for a united Andhra Pradesh, L. Rajagopal, a Congress MP from Vijayawada, Sunday said the division of the coastal state for a proposed Telangana would not be allowed. "We will not allow the division of Andhra Pradesh. Why should Andhra be divided?" Rajagopal told reporters here.

Kolkata : Alleging that the Trinamool Congress was employing terror tactics and vitiating the poll atmosphere, veteran Congress leader Somen Mitra Friday accused West...

Kolkata: The official process for the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal begins Wednesday when the Election Commission is scheduled to issue the notification...

By IANS, New Delhi : The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) forced adjournments of both houses of parliament Tuesday over its demand for a Rs.800 billion development package for Uttar Pradesh. The disruption began as soon as the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha met for question hour. BSP members were on their feet, raising slogans against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government and alleging discrimination against Uttar Pradesh.

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By IANS, New Delhi : Heralding a generational change in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), veteran leader L.K. Advani is set to relinquish his post as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha to don the role of party's mentor. Party sources said Advani is likely to quit his post as the Leader of Opposition Friday at the meeting of the BJP parliamentary party.

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New Delhi : The suicide of a farmer at an AAP rally reverberated in the Lok Sabha on Thursday with opposition parties demanding an...

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By IANS, Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Friday shot off two letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his help in expediting BHEL's power projects in the state.

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By IANS, Chennai : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday suffered a jolt in Tamil Nadu when its National Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP S. Thirunavukkarasar joined the Congress. The Congress announced the development in New Delhi in the presence of Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad as well as Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K.V. Thankabalu. "He has joined our party unconditionally. His admission was approved by Congress president Sonia Gandhi," Thankabalu told IANS from New Delhi.

By IANS, New Delhi : Union Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar has been given one-year extension, the government announced Monday. Chandrasekhar will be in office for one more year beginning June 13. The decision to extend Chandrasekhar's tenure appears to have been taken to maintain continuity and keep up the momentum in the implementation of various key social sector programmes initiated by the government, said a senior bureaucrat.

Mumbai : Top banker Deepak Parekh Tuesday described the victory of Aam Admi Party (AAP) in Delhi's assembly elections as a "vote for change". "It...

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New Delhi : Ahead of the winter session of parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan wrote a letter to MPs, urging them to "behave...

By IANS, Ranchi : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will campaign in Jharkhand Friday, a party leader said here Wednesday. He is scheduled to campaign in the constituencies that go to the polls Dec 8 in the third of the state's five-phase assembly elections. "Rahul Gandhi will campaign at four places on Friday," Congress' Jharkhand unit general secretary Shailesh Sinha told IANS. He said Rahul will campaign in Bermo of Bokaro district, Latehar, Visunpur of Gumla district and Simdega.

New Delhi : HRD Minister Smriti Irani's controversial comments on Durga and Mahishasur appear to ignore the varied folk traditions in which the latter...

By IANS Shimla : The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government Friday effected its first major administrative reshuffle with the transfer of 32 top Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and state civil service officials. The government ordered the transfer of 15 IAS officials and 17 Himachal Administrative Service (HAS) officers. Those officials perceived to be close to the earlier Congress regime have been transferred.

Amethi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at Narendra Modi government with his "suit-boot sarkar" jibe, saying his party wants a...

By IANS, New Delhi : Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Tuesday confirmed that she met in prison Nalini Sriharan, one of those convicted for the assassination of her father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. "I met Nalini on March 19. It was purely a personal visit on my own initiative which must be respected," said Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in a statement, after a newspaper reported the meeting at the Vellore prison in Tamil Nadu.

New Delhi: Congress leader Manish Tewari has tendered an "unconditional apology" to former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari for for allegations against him relating to...

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By IANS, Jammu : After a slow start, campaigning has gained momentum in the Jammu region where polling will be held in two seats in the first two phases of the five-phase 2009 general elections. The Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have mobilised their star campaigners in Jammu and Kashmir, with the visiting leaders attracting good crowds.

Srinagar : Those raising non-issues like allotment of land for a Sainik Colony in Kashmir are actually enemies of peace and development, Jammu and...

Thiruvananthapuram : Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit was sworn in as the 22nd governor of Kerala at Raj Bhavan here Tuesday. Kerala High...

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By IANS, Hyderabad : Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao was discharged from the hospital Friday, a day after he broke a 11-day fast-unto-death demanding a separate Telangana state. KCR, as he is popularly known, went to his house in Banjara Hills neighbourhood accompanied by his family members and some TRS leaders. The Mahabubnagar MP broke the fast in the early hours of Thursday after the central government agreed to his demand for separate statehood for the Telangana region.

Chandigarh : With schools in Punjab's border belt being shut indefinitely due to escalation of tension between India and Pakistan, state Education Minister...

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By IANS, Srinagar : Miffed over his exclusion from the Jammu and Kashmir ministry that was expanded earlier in the day, the leader of the Congress party in the state assembly stepped down from the post Saturday over his "personal humiliation". However Chowdhary Mohammed Aslam, a Congress veteran, decided to continue as a legislator in the 87-member state assembly. "It was a personal humiliation for me. As a senior leader of the party, I should have been taken into confidence about the inclusion of Congress leaders in the cabinet expansion," he said.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day and the Lok Sabha for the third time Thursday following chaos over the arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and the arson attack on her house by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) workers. The Rajya Sabha was first adjourned almost as soon as it had convened. When it reconvened, MPs from Uttar Pradesh's ruling BSP started shouting slogans, forcing Deputy Chairman K. Rahman Khan to adjourn the house for the day.

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By IANS Thiruvananthapuram : Rocked by corruptions scandals and with factionalism at its peak in the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the ongoing party meetings may see the top brass crack the whip to rein in erring members. Party general secretary Prakash Karat, senior politburo members S. Ramachandran Pillai and Umanath attended the state secretariat meeting Thursday and are said to have asserted that certain actions had to be taken to keep the party intact in Kerala, irrespective of the strength of rival factions.

By IANS, New Delhi : MPs of the Left front and the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) Tuesday marched to parliament from Jantar Mantar to protest against rise in prices of essential commodities. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury told reporters: "A formal nationwide agitation will start April 16 and go on till April 23." He asked the government to strengthen the public distribution system and take action against hoarders.

By IANS, New Delhi : As many as 56 MPs - among them former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and actor-politicians Dharmendra and Govinda - did not ask a single question during their five-year term, statistics reveal. The study was conducted by PRS Legislative Research, an independent research initiative, and included both starred and unstarred questions in parliament till December 2008. The 14th Lok Sabha ended last month.

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By IANS, New Delhi : Major political parties Tuesday welcomed the Election Commission's decision to ban publication or telecast of opinion/exit polls 48 hours before the last hour of polling in single-phase balloting. "We welcome this decision. Opinion polls create distortions. They can have an effect on the trend of polling. It was a feeling of almost all political parties, and the Election Commission has taken note of this feeling," senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid told IANS. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi echoed the same view.

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By IANS, Chennai : Seven people were injured and four cars were damaged during election-related violence between supporters of the ruling DMK and the Islamic MMK here, police said Wednesday. "MMK volunteers objected to alleged bogus voting by DMK workers, leading to a violent clash between the two groups at Ice House (in central Chennai)," a police official said. "Swords, wooden clubs and stones were used during the fight. Police reinforcements were rushed to the spot to contain the violence," he added. No arrests have been made so far.

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for "cheating the...

By IANS, Baramulla : Hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic voters came out in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla constituency Wednesday to exercise their democratic right despite a boycott call by separatists and threats from militant groups. Some 360,000 voters of the over one million electorate cast their votes by 3 p.m. in Baramulla, once a hotbed of militancy and a stronghold of pro-Pakistan separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani. The state's cold desert region Ladakh saw a turnout of over 47 percent by the same time.

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Monday released its list of 26 candidates from Bihar with party chief Lalu Prasad contesting from two constituencies in next month's parliamentary elections. "We will now contest in 28 out of 40 seats in Bihar as per our seat sharing pact with the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). We will work to defeat communal forces," Lalu Prasad told reporters, adding that the decision on two seats was pending. Lalu Prasad will be contesting from Patliputra and Saran constituencies.

New Delhi : The Delhi High Court has refused to quash a police complaint filed against an AAP candidate in the Delhi assembly election...

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New Delhi : The Election Commission received 550 new electoral forms after organising a day-long enrollment campaign for the people from the northeast here...

By IANS, Raipur: Police arrested Chhattisgarh Congress unit president Dhanendra Sahu, leader of opposition Ravindra Choubey along with over 200 party workers Thursday when they were on way to state Chief Minister Raman Singh's official residence to stage protests. The Congress leaders and cadres were held when they defied police warnings and insisted on demonstrating in front of the chief minister's residence to highlight the suicide by a farmer Suresh Yadav.

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New Delhi : Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said that he was "saddened" at former prime minister Manmohan Singh being summoned by court...

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Alappuzha (Kerala) : The wife of a CRPF trooper from Kerala who drowned in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday hit out at CRPF officials, accusing them...

Lucknow, June 2 (IANS) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Monday summoned the Uttar Pradesh government's inquiry report on allotment of a plot to Samajwadi Party national general secretary Amar Singh. The court directed the government to present the inquiry report before it June 4, chief standing counsel Devendra Kumar told IANS. The state government had alleged that norms were bypassed for allotting the plot to Singh, and it had later constituted a probe against the leader. The then government of Mulayam Singh Yadav had allotted the plot to Singh in 1993.

By IANS, New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday met diplomats from 30 African countries and assured them that his government will do...

Lucknow : Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leader Ajit Singh Friday lost the Lok Sabha election from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh to BJP's Satyapal Singh,...

New Delhi: Social activist Shabnam Hashmi Monday claimed she was surrounded, threatened and manhandled by "goons" of the BJP who even threatened to rape...

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New Delhi : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Saturday slammed the Centre over "poor implementation" of the demonetisation of high value currency...

Bengaluru : The Karnataka government has disbursed financial aid to 3.2 million farmers to compensate for crop loss due to severe drought in 27...

By Jaideep Sarin, IANS, Chandigarh : At a time when the number of voters has been increasing everywhere else across India, their number in the union territory of Chandigarh has actually gone down. Chandigarh has about 500,000 voters for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in a population of over 1.1 million. The number of registered voters in the 1999 general elections was over 585,000. The number of voters in the 2004 general elections decreased to about 520,000. In 2008, the registered voters were just over 485,000.

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New Delhi : Outgoing Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday signalled his intention to stake claim to form the government despite a...